Dreamy indie pop quartet, The Sundays, had a uncanny knack for crafting charming, innocent and introspective tunes in the early 1990s. The band was formed in London in 1987 by mutual friends and partners, Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin at the University in Bristol. The Sundays were heavily influenced by The Smiths and The Cocteau Twins with Wheeler's airy, school-girl vocals and tender prose and Gavurin's free-floating guitar melodies. "Can't Be Sure," the band's first single topped John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1989. While, The Sundays' second single, "Here's Where the Story Ends" a sweet, strummy smash hit that paid homage to The Smiths' "Cemetery Gates," scored big with listeners at #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Charts. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic went gold in the U.S. as did the band's follow-up, Blind, which featured the pleasantly poppy, "Love" and the wonderful rendition of "Wild Horses," which was later featured in a pretty, horsey Budweiser commercial.
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